I guess I should add that I am not a fluent Spanish reader/speaker, and I'd still love a specific dictionary recommendation, because there are always tough calls in any language.posted by Camofrog at 7:58 PM on April 19, 2010

oops, forgot to finish my first sentence, which was going to say thanks for pointing to the earlier question.posted by Camofrog at 8:01 PM on April 19, 2010

First, if you are good enough in Spanish to worry about close calls, you should move into a Spanish-Spanish dictionary.

Second, for dead-tree, Larousse is definitely my go-to brand for dictionaries now, and I have three or four varieties of their Spanish dictionaries. These are battered and well-loved; their inferior colleagues including Langenscheidt, Vox, and one with an orange red and white cover and very blurry type that I detested so much I can't think of the name. If you can't find Larousse, I have also had good experience with Oxford in other languages but have never used it for Spanish.

I went with The Concise American Heritage Spanish Dictionary, 2nd Ed. (Houghton Mifflin). Not as comprehensive as Larousse, I'm sure, but it does have syllable breaks and it's good enough for our purposes.posted by Camofrog at 9:10 AM on May 21, 2010

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